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by seanw444 7mo ago
Nim is really incredible. The only things I cannot get over is the fact that it goes the inheritance route in a way I find to be hacky and fragile (no more than one level, really?) and traits are not a core feature. If Nim's primary ap
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by seanw444 7mo ago
I'm just going to keep building software mostly traditionally, while using "AI" to help me research things quicker (might as well use it while it's here), survive the shitpocalypse, and then laugh as traditional-minded d
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by seanw444 7mo ago
And the existing infrastructure routinely struggles for several of the well known players. You can literally tell when it's getting bogged down by workload. And that's after all the absurdly large datacenters we've already es
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by seanw444 7mo ago
The level to which this stuff can be used against the common person is truly astounding.
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by seanw444 7mo ago
Yeah Apple's hardware team still has the sauce. As someone who will not buy Apple products, I do have to give kudos where they're due. Their software is an ever-evolving dumpster fire. I just wish their hardware was friendly to Li
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The Equivalence of Systems That Process Turing-Complete Input [pdf](poc.bcachefs.org)
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by seanw444 7mo ago
I was curious about the current state of bcachefs, found a Phoronix article about the recent release, checked the comments thread, and boy is there a lot of lore I've learned about Kent. Apparently he works on bcachefs with an AI that
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by seanw444 7mo ago
And thanks to the recent Kagi Translate HN post, we have a tool to generate these more easily: https://translate.kagi.com/?to=corporate-jargon&from=en&text...
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by seanw444 7mo ago
Jumping 12 major versions to one that doesn't exist yet must yield quite the performance boost.
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Zoomer here, guess I must be getting old too.
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Fair point.
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I really don't understand all the systemd hate. It got popular because it was good. I have nothing against the other options, but systemd is just fine. You always have the option of creating your own init scripts with the other systems
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by seanw444 7mo ago
They're used for more than just anonymization. You know, their original purpose.
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by seanw444 7mo ago
You're on HN. Expect downvotes.
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People don't want to be exploited for the greater good just because it's astonishing technology. That's why it always gets brought up.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
> It’s in popular culture and HN comments most often as spyware and mass surveillance of people, and that’s a bit of a shame. I don't know whether you mean it's a shame that people consider it spyware, or if you meant that it&#
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by seanw444 8mo ago
That really should be a standard setting for camera apps.
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Uncommon/novel variants of the pepe meme. And no idea.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
> The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is a strategic partner and funder of the MOSIP technology platform. Because of course it is.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
How many people on this site are unaware of the amount of times the government's courts have found its executive, legislative, (and lower judicial) branches acting without authority? How many people on this site are unaware of the exte
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by seanw444 8mo ago
> sow discord Funny choice of wording: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-pu...
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by seanw444 8mo ago
"Show me the man, I'll show you the crime."
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by seanw444 8mo ago
They want to make this the only way to run apps on Android too.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
I think their point was that Star Wars also has metaphorical lessons to be learned if you're not interpreting it as a literal history lesson.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
The western half, sure. You're ignoring the eastern half which carried the mantle for another thousand years. And the concurrent existence of the Holy Roman Empire, which was also intertwined with the Roman Catholic church.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
I hadn't really thought about that. Interesting.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
Open Camera does that though. It's right next to the main "take photo" button. At least on the version I have.
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Climate reparations now!
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by seanw444 8mo ago
Finally a human with a context window larger than a few hundred years.
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by seanw444 8mo ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's the unfortunate reality.

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